impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S. and (3 … Germany. A differentiation between imported intermediates (efficient sourcing strategy) and final inputs (competition) reveals …In this study we use import penetration as a proxy for foreign competition in order to empirically analyze (1) the …

, firms are price-makers and wage-setters. Our setting combines monopolistic and monopsonistic competition, thus encapsulating …

Welfare and Competition tool (WELCOM), to estimate with minimum data requirements the direct distributional effects of market … telecommunications and corn products. The results show that increasing competition from four to 12 firms in the mobile telecommunications …

East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures … or redistributive preferences. Nonetheless, individuals from East Germany tend to be more supportive of state …

question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of …

comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages …

it all", but women must still choose between career and family in Germany. We argue that interventions need to address …

manufacturing enterprises in Germany, one of the leading actors in the world market for goods. We show that the premium decreases …

This paper analyzes the role of the extensive vis-à-vis the intensive margin of labor adjustment in Germany and in the …